Very good/lots to enjoy
Synopsis
Alice (Moore) is a celebrated Professor of linguistic development with a settled New York family life.
Her husband Baldwin adores her, and she has three very different but loving children in yummy-mummy Bosworth, doctor Howland and budding actress Stewart who lives in Los Angeles.
Their lives are shattered when Alice is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's and they have to readjust their lives as Alice's once razor-sharp mind rapidly disintegrates.
Review
It was all about egg-heads with incurable afflictions at this year's Academy Awards.
For this film, star Julianne Moore nabbed a well-deserved Best Actress statuette (admittedly, there wasn't much competition) for her quietly powerful, heart-wrenching turn as an esteemed academic struck down with early onset Alzheimer's.
More glamorous a mental and physical disintegration than the other Oscar-winning role in 2015, Eddie Redmayne as motor neurone-stricken Stephen Hawking, she relies on a more subtle use of voice, looks and movements to convey a woman being let down by her brain, her greatest asset.
The other actors hardly get a look-in, but Alec Baldwin as her doting husband comes across well as a man frustrated and scared at losing the love of his life.
And unless you are hard of heart, take a couple of tissues for some teary, but beautifully written and acted, moments.
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Producers: James Brown, Pamels Koffler, Lex Lutzus. Writer: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland. Camera: Denis Lenoir. Music: Ilan Eshkeri. Sets: Tommaso Ortino.
Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish, Shane McRae, Stephen Kunken.
